#Campaign protocols: Never show up at your opponent’s fundraiser and rant and rave and cause a scene.

It happened here locally with a candidate running in this year’s elections. I have no idea what the candidate was thinking.

The Chron has a story today on the Mayoral race. The story is only available to those that buy the hard copy or subscribe. The story focuses on Ben Hall’s TV buy strategy or lack of strategy. Respected political scientists think it is odd for Hall to pull back ads this late in the game. We will see.

On the other hand, I still have not seen a positive ad for The Mayor. We will also see.

The NLCS begins tonight with the Dodgers in San Luis. Name the first two teams to ever play in the NLCS?

The Chron E-Board rolled out two more endorsements today: Challenger David Robinson in At-Large 2 and incumbent CM Al Hoang in District F.

In 1969 the Mets swept The ATL in three to win the first ever NLCS of course.

I’m thinking MLB likes the fact that the Red Sox, San Luis, and Dodgers are still in the hunt. It is good for the ratings. I am sure they would love a Dodger/Red Sox Serious. I have nothing against Detroit.

Costello readily acknowledges he plans to run for mayor following his council service. We would recommend that the best way for someone in his position to reach the big office on the third floor at City Hall is to be the best at-large councilman he can be if elected to a third two-year term.

I guess CM Costello becomes the first declared 2015 Mayoral candidate. He better start voting in Dem Party primaries.

San Luis punched their ticket to the NLCS last night. Last year San Luis retired the Numero 10. Who wore the Numero 10?

Here is another exercise in exercising. RNC Hispanics and AG Abbott and former State Rep. Errant Pena are putting together a GOP outreach to Latinos voters – YAWN!

It is about issues. It is about immigration reform. It is about health care. It is about voting rights.

Commentary received a Zeph Capo for HCC mailer yesterday.

Forty years ago today Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigned.

Tony La Russa of course wore the Numero 10 for San Luis.

Here is from the ‘Stros website:

Astros owner Jim Crane said last week the team would be in position to increase its payroll next year, and on Tuesday he provided the first indication of just how much money could be spent on players in 2014.

Crane said the Astros’ payroll, which was at about $13 million to end the season, could be between $50-60 million next year regardless of whether the club is able to settle its dispute with television partner Comcast.

The Red Sox are back in the ALCS. When was the first time the Red Sox won the AL East Division title?

If you support The Mayor you probably think she won the debate. If you support Ben Hall you probably think he won the debate. If you support any of the other candidates, nobody cares what you think. If you support handshakes, you probably think Ben Hall won the debate. If you don’t think debaters should sit down in chairs that are for sitting down, you probably think Ben Hall won the debate.

If you think that going to Matt Schaub’s house for the purpose of chewing him out in front of his family is a good idea, then maybe you need to get your head checked for brain damage.

Here is a question folks should be debating today in H-Town. Has H-Town overreacted to the lousy games the Texans’ QB has had the last three or four weeks? It seems like it has become H-Town’s Numero 1 public policy discussion when it is only a game. The nation is debating the GOP federal government shutdown. The state is talking about Sen. Wendy Davis’ gubernatorial bid. H-Town is talking about our QB situation. Have we gone overboard?

The Red Sox won their first AL East Division title in 1975 of course and we know what happened then.

In Sunday’s Chron there was a story written by the SA Express News’ David Saleh Rauf and Peggy Fikac on South Texas turnout being key to a Sen. Wendy Davis victory. I don’t have a problem with that. It would be nice though to see a piece about Houston area Latinos also being a key. Stay tuned!

The Dodgers advanced to the NLCS last night after beating The ATL in four. The Dodgers last won the World Serious in 1988, taking the A’s in five. Name the 1988 World Serious MVP.

A shout out goes to Laura and John Arnold for plunking down $10 mil of their own dough to help keep Head Start running during the GOP federal government shutdown.

The Chron E-Board started rolling out their candidate endorsements today. The HCC Board of Trustee candidates are first up including Commentary’s client Adriana Tamez for HCC District 3. Check this:

District 3: To finish the remaining two years of an unexpired term, we recommend Adriana Tamez. The Denver Harbor native combines intimate familiarity with the southeast Houston district and strong credentials as an education professional. We believe her presence would be a particular help in changing the board tone and direction.

Tea Party Sen. Ted Cruz is getting blasted big time by his GOP colleagues. Check this from Politico from a closed door meeting of GOP senators yesterday:

“It was very evident to everyone in the room that Cruz doesn’t have a strategy – he never had a strategy, and could never answer a question about what the end-game was,” said one senator who attended the meeting. “I just wish the 35 House members that have bought the snake oil that was sold could witness what was witnessed today at lunch.”

And:

“He kept trying to change the subject because he never could answer the question,” the senator said. “It’s pretty evident it’s never been about a strategy – it’s been about him. That’s unfortunate. I think he’s done our country a major disservice. I think he’s done Republicans a major disservice.”

The Tea Party members of Congress are feeling the heat for sure and they are scrambling to get out of the kitchen. Now they want to piecemeal their way out of a shutdown by trying to open up some popular parts of the federal government. It is not going to work. Like I said, it’s your GOP federal government shutdown so own it.

The ‘Stros set the MLB record for most strikeouts in a season. Guess how many?

The ‘Stros announced yesterday that our two preseason games at The Yard next season will be against Rojos del Aguila from Veracruz from the Mexican Baseball League. I’m OK with that. We have had puny crowds the last few seasons for the two exhibition games. I’m thinking folks of the Mexican persuasion will show up at The Yard to check out the games. We should have good crowds.

A couple of weeks or so ago I got an anonymous email about the letter to District I candidate Ben Mendez from Rev. Bill Lawson letting Mendez know that Lawson was pulling his support from Mendez’s campaign. It turned out the letter was true. The same anonymous source sent me and others an email Saturday with a copy of a letter from former District I council member Ben Reyes to Mendez telling Mendez to stop saying that Reyes is supporting Mendez. We will see if the Reyes letter is genuine.

Commentary has heard that Reyes is playing in a few local campaigns this campaign season.

Over 100,000 showed up for the weekend with Yankees. We got to see Andy Pettitte pitch a complete game Saturday night. We got an apology from Mariano Rivera yesterday saying he wanted his last time on the mound to be at Yankee Stadium. Some folks booed The Rocket. The ‘Stros set the strikeout record yesterday, and yesterday’s game went into extra innings. We got swept and a lot of Yankee fans were there.

Saturday night I tweeted this:

Got run out of my seats for interfering with ball hit down the line. #MLBReplay.

Here is what happened. Robinson Cano smashed one down the right field line. I thought it hit foul and I thought the umpire called it foul. I reached over hoping to snag my seventh of the year. It zipped in and out of my lid. The ball was fair and the ump called interference so the security folks escorted me out of my seat. I was met on the concourse by six or seven security folks and they wrote me up on some MLB form so now I’m on some sort of MLB offenders data base.

I was then escorted by a security guy to the fan accommodations booth where I was handed off to another security pair. After a few awkward seconds they asked me what I there for. I told them that I was there to pick up my two Insperity Club tickets for Sunday’s game. They looked perplexed and I walked off. What a joke!

Yesterday when I showed up one of the security guys that wasn’t involved Saturday night told me that the play was reviewed after the game and it turns out that the Yankee fan sitting next to me reached over me and touched the ball first so there was no reason for me to be removed. Of course they didn’t offer to apologize.

The ‘Stros now own the MLB strikeout record of course with 1,535 Ks thanks in large part to Chris Carter 212.

Well we ended the miserable season on a 15 game losing streak. It was awful, awful, awful! They better get them some better players. I feel good about our future starting rotation but we need better bullpen arms. I don’t feel so good about the position players. Other than Jason Castro and Jose Altuve, I really can’t tell you who deserves to be in MLB. We still have a long way to go.

I was presented with a cool looking baseball bat yesterday for being a loyal fan. I am.